Shasta Elementary

As a mid-sized elementary school in Chico, California, Shasta Elementary works with 621 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Chico Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 34% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Chico Unified comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 12,260 students; Shasta Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Shasta Elementary records that White students make up the majority at 62%. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, Shasta Elementary reports 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 46% of students at Shasta Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Butte County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Shasta Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.3%, the actual is 48.5%, a residual of -3.8 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Butte County) reports that median household earnings sit near $67,928, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Butte County's 96 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,730 students), Shasta Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Academy for Change is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Shasta Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 653 (now 621). The White share of enrollment fell from 67% to 62% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 21.3:1 today.

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